The most common question students got wrong in my catechism class was related to the teaching of the Immaculate Conception. Nearly all the students thought the Church is referring to Jesus. Instead, the Immaculate Conception is referring to the Blessed Virgin Mary!...
If you know your Catholic feasts, memorials, and solemnities, you have been waiting for this week with great anticipation. There are times throughout the year we have great feasts back to back, but I am not sure there is a week like the one from September 29 to...
St. Juliana of Nicodemia, Wikimedia Commons The church celebrates the feast of one of the great martyrs of the Diocletianic persecution in 303. It was the last massive wave of persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire. This persecution has seen the...
Lent will soon be upon us and as it approaches the Church asks the faithful to consider what Lenten practices they will adopt in anticipation of the season. Traditionally, three weeks before Lent was a season a “pre-Lent” preparation called Septuagesima....
All Saints Day As we begin to close out October—continuing to pray our rosaries of course!—we look ahead to All Saints Day. It’s a day we can look to the saints for inspiration, an example of how to live in a world which rejects God. There are a lot of saints to be...
